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A short form of a word or phrase, made by leaving letters out — like 'Dr.' for doctor, or 'USA' for United States of America. Any form counts, whether or not you can pronounce it as a word.
縮寫
組成ab- (away) + brevi (short, from Latin) + -ation (the ending for 'the act or result of doing something').
同家族的字
- briefshares the Latin root meaning 'short'
- abbreviatethe verb form — to make something shorter
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
abbreviationnoun/əˌbɹiː.viˈeɪ.ʃən/
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The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase used to represent the whole, using omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
- Hants is an abbreviation of Hampshire.
- Americans, for example, call newcomers to Antarctica “fingies”, which comes from FNGs – a borrowed military abbreviation that means “Fucking New Guy”.
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The process of abbreviating.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicOne or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
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Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
- The phrase "civil rights" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships.
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biologynatural-sciencesLoss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
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mathematicssciencesReduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。